/ 30 September 2001

VENGEFUL MALAWIAN WOMAN JAILED

A VENGEFUL Malawian woman has been found guilty of rubbing pepper into the private parts of her husband’s alleged 15-year-old girlfriend and repeatedly writing the word ‘prostitute’ over her body with nail polish. Constance Kamundi (26) was sentenced to two years of hard labour by a magistrate’s court in the lakeshore district of Mangochi on Monday, for assaulting the teenager, because she suspected her of having an affair with her husband. Kamundi dragged the girl to her house on September 18, locked her inside, forced her to undress and then assaulted her before driving the naked girl around town. In passing judgment, the magistrate said: “It is sad that you took the law into your own hands instead of bringing your accusation to a court, which is entrusted to administer such cases. His ruling comes barely a month after an abusive employer allegedly killed her 13-year-old housemaid by pouring boiling water on her for eating a piece of potato. – African Eye News Service